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India's new AI-training framework is a repeat of old mistakes

New Delhi, Nov. 3 -- Last week, the ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) released a new framework aimed at breaking the "data deadlock" and democratizing data access to build art... Read More


Rahul Matthan: Does it really matter if something you liked was written by AI?

New Delhi, Oct. 27 -- Earlier this year, the Supreme Court of Colombia dismissed an appeal after an artificial intelligence (AI) detector called Winston found that the filing contained "only 7% human ... Read More


Who should be held liable for the harms of self-evolving AI? The answer is clear

New Delhi, Oct. 20 -- In June last year, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology published a paper describing a process by which large language models could generate training notes an... Read More


Shield yourself: Judgement is the last human bastion against AI bots ready to take jobs away

New Delhi, Oct. 13 -- On the last day of their meeting in Prague in August 2006, 424 astronomers of the International Astronomical Union voted to demote Pluto from its current status. Having grown up,... Read More


Resistance to data centres is arising in India too: It's time for policy to address people's concerns

New Delhi, Oct. 6 -- This July, several hundred residents of Thane formed a human chain outside a 53-acre plot in Balkum that had been earmarked for a hyperscale data centre. They were agitating again... Read More


Agentic AI can be given access to digital public infrastructure only after they pass a security check

New Delhi, Sept. 22 -- In the short time since the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident happened, I have written not one but two articles about it. In August, I pointed out that this incident was evidence tha... Read More


Learning on the job is crucial for certain professions but AI threatens to automate it away

New Delhi, Sept. 15 -- In a post earlier this month, mathematician Terence Tao described a recent incident at the frontier of his field. He spoke of how, just days after a young mathematician named St... Read More


Thinking of AI agents as digital humans is convenient but we mustn't take this analogy too far

New Delhi, Sept. 8 -- Of the many articles written after the OpenAI-HuggingFace incident late last month, one by Dwarkesh Patel in which he referred to it as the rise and fall of agent 'civilisations'... Read More


India is an inventive country, yet too many innovations die prematurely. Let's prevent that

New Delhi, Sept. 1 -- The Simputer was the first genuinely original computer that India built. As the legal advisor to the project, I was lucky to own one of its first colour units off the production ... Read More


Why guardrails and constitutions aren't enough to stop rogue AI-and what may actually work instead

New Delhi, Aug. 18 -- In July 2026, the UK's AI Safety Institute (AISI) realized that an agent it had tasked with completing a software-security exercise had tried to social-engineer its way to the so... Read More